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title: She swam round the ship for some time, and then swung herself gracef… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: She swam round the ship for some time, and then swung herself gracefully on board, in order to examine the beautiful silken stuffs more closely. Who acts: mermaid. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Mermaid, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Green Fairy Book, The Golden Mermaid, sentence 70

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She swam round the ship for some time, and then swung herself gracefully on board, in order to examine the beautiful silken stuffs more closely.

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**Who acts:** mermaid · **What happens:** swim, swing, examine · **To what, where:** ship, mermaid, board, beautiful silken stuffs

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Mermaid. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mermaid), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher.** This tree is Mova's own parse (the `en` model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg7277:52:70
# text = She swam round the ship for some time, and then swung herself gracefully on board, in order to examine the beautiful silken stuffs more closely.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	swam	swim	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	round	round	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	ship	ship	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
6	for	for	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	8	det	_	_
8	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	12	advmod	_	_
12	swung	swing	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
13	herself	herself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	12	obj	_	_
14	gracefully	gracefully	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
15	on	on	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	board	board	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
18	in	in	SCONJ	IN	ExtPos=SCONJ	21	mark	_	_
19	order	order	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	fixed	_	_
20	to	to	PART	TO	_	21	mark	_	_
21	examine	examine	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	conj	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
23	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
24	silken	silken	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	stuffs	stuff	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obj	_	_
26	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	27	advmod	_	_
27	closely	closely	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **swim** | past | mermaid |  |  | the ship | time |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme round ship=Trajectory |
| 2 | **swing** | past |  | mermaid |  | board | then | gracefully *property* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent herself=Theme on board=Location |
| 3 | **examine** | to-infinitive |  | the beautiful silken stuffs |  |  |  | closely *property* | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stuff=Theme |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Text:** «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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